Alpha Bah, a 24-year-old shop owner in Dakar, Senegal, agreed that the president’s description was correct. If it wasn’t, he said, thousands of migrants wouldn’t risk their lives trying to flee to Europe. “Nobody wants to be in a shithole,” he said.

NYT still has some good reporters, or at least ones who are aware of their bias and try to compensate for it. I also like their Asian tech coverage. But, yes, overall a shitlab rag with an (((agenda)))